HaNephesh [philosophical work]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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MENDELSSOHN, MOSES

HaNephesh [philosophical work]

FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy, with handwritten inscription from the publisher, David Friedlaender, to "My master and friend, the distinguished physician and scholar Mordechai Halevi." Previous owner's stamp "Dr. Rippne, Glogau" ff. 5, 15. Slightly browned. Contemporary wrappers. 8vo Vinograd, Berlin 352

Berlin: Chevrath Chinuch Ne’arim 1787

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Following the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1796, David Friedländer became his intellectual successor and pioneer of the ideology of Haskalah, occupying a prominent position in both Jewish and non-Jewish circles in Berlin. “Among Mendelssohn's many admirers none was so deeply and unreservedly attached to him as David Friedländer, and Mendelssohn responded with equal warmth…Friedländer's memory was a store-house of anecdotes from Mendelssohn's life, and his point in telling them was to show the wisdom and nobility of the man.” A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biography (1973), pp. 350-51